philologue
\fi.lɔ.lɔɡ\
The verdict
“philologue” is uncommon French (frequency #52,264 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,264
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Grammairien, spécialiste des textes anciens (et moins souvent, de textes modernes ou récents), de leur établissement et de leur transmission.
Corpus desk
Index FR-philologue · philologue · French
philologue · rank #52,264 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,264
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH philistins
Nearest frequency peer: philistins (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « philologue »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- peoples
peoples
47,741 corpus weight
- peuplades
peuplades
47,739 corpus weight
- philistins
philistins
47,738 corpus weight
- philologue
philologue
47,737 corpus weight
- pickpocket
pickpocket
47,735 corpus weight
- pissent
pissent
47,734 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « philologue » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | philologue |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fi.lɔ.lɔɡ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #52,264 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « philologue » en français
Rare enough to double-check
philologue is uncommon French at frequency #52,264 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fi.lɔ.lɔɡ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Grammairien, spécialiste des textes anciens (et moins souvent, de textes modernes ou récents), de leur établissement et de leur transmission.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for philologue in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is philologue, spelled P-H-I-L-O-L-O-G-U-E.
Definition
- 1Grammairien, spécialiste des textes anciens (et moins souvent, de textes modernes ou récents), de leur établissement et de leur transmission.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how philologue appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tantôt, c’est une date qu’il faut chercher, tantôt un lieu qu’il importe de déterminer précisément ou quelque vieux terme dont il est intéressant de connaître le vrai sens. Des mots ? — Eh ! oui, des mots. Philologue, je suis leur souverain, ils sont mes sujets, et je leur donne, en bon roi, ma vie entière.
Un mot pour les philologues. — Il y a des livres si précieux et si royaux que des générations entières de savants ont leur utilité si, grâce à leur labeur, ces livres sont conservés purs et intelligibles […].
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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